Am I the only one who thought this series really stunk? Cheesy animation, silly plots, even as a 9-year-old, it gave me a queasy feeling. And I loved cartoons, science fiction and both "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," all of which were elements of the series. But combining a conventional Twain character with far-fetched fantasy plots was a nauseous mix. I think this is a great example of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon heresies that drug animated films to their historical low point. The mixture of animated and live action is a very difficult concept to pull off. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is a good example of where it worked well. This is an example of where it failed miserably.

There are things that you look back at in your life and you get a warm, fuzzy feeling about. This show inspired the child that I was to go outside and play make-belief with the other children. My imagination ignited by the myriad of possibilities that could exist in this realm. You pick up a stick, and it's a sword. Pick up a garbage can lid and it's a shield. The animation mixed with live action...although probably pretty hokey by today's standards...was a treat in that it linked the limit of realism with the limitlessness of imagination. It's been...25 years since I last seen it...and of all the things in my life to feel warm and fuzzy about of which there are definitely a few...I count how I felt about watching this show to be among them. So, yeah, for nostalgic sake, I would make the decision to watch it in a heart beat if someone digs it up and puts it on the air again.

I do remember this show coming on around supper time on Sunday nights. It was really unique in it's mix of live action and animation and I thought it was a great format for youngsters (I was nine at the time). It was easy to identify with the "trio" of stars and the animated back-drop enabled them to visit any land or time in history and encounter any type of villain (of course all the villain's looked suspiciously like Injun Joe!)...... One would think that this live action/animation format would have become more popular but I heard that it was quite expensive to create at the time (without computers) and this may have had a lot to do with the show's early demise. When a syndicated half-hour version of the "Banana Splits" aired in the late 70's, it periodically featured episodes of this particular Huck Finn show.

Cartoon Network apparently has this episode in its extensive Hanna-Barbera library. They just showed an episode of "The New Adventures Of Huck Finn" on their Saturday morning program "Boomerang". The episode was entitled "The Eye Of Doogerah".Unfortunately, the Boomerang program just shows random episodes of old Saturday morning cartoons, but at least this rather unique (if not odd) program has been preserved for now.